Sunday, November 8, 2009

Boston University

Illegal Downloading Costs Grad Student $675,000

The Boston University student could have been hit with a much higher fine. more >>

Updates to Some Grad School Data

Several schools have notified us of mistakes in their reporting. more >>

Boston University Dorm Evacuated After Electrical Problem

20 students were trapped in elevators, some for hours. more >>

Layoffs at Syracuse, Miami U., and Boston U.

More budget problems for more schools more >>

Boston University Claims Small Victory Against RIAA

A judge agrees that school could not accurately identify students' identities behind IP addresses. more >>

Harvard Law Prof Takes on the RIAA

Charles Nesson files counterclaim on behalf of Boston University student. more >>

Texas A&M, BU, and Vanderbilt Expand Their Aid Programs

The increased financial aid helps families, but the schools are challenged to raise the extra money. more >>

St. Louis Sees Jump in Chinese Freshman Enrollment

With better recruiting and the weak dollar, other schools also see increases in international students. more >>

Dubai Recruits American Medical Leaders

Harvard and the Mayo Clinic are among the big-name institutions locating in Healthcare City. more >>

The Undie Run Epidemic

At least three more schools think it's a good idea to organize a large mass of people to run around half-naked. more >>

Like "Thriller," But With Activists

Students dress as zombies to protest Boston University biolab. more >>

BU Student: "I Had to Kill to Get Here"

Now that one Boston University student, who spent years after high school in the Marine Corps because he could not afford college, has left Iraq, collected the Marines' $80,000 stipend, and enrolled in a four-year university, he does not intend to mess around. "I really want this," he told the Daily Free Press. more >>

BU Athletes Portrayed as Victims Maybe Not So Innocent

Yesterday, the Daily Free Press described a weekend fight that landed two Boston University men's ice hockey players in the hospital and two other athletes injured as completely unprovoked. Later that night, the men's ice hockey coach told the paper a different story: the fight "was not a random attack," but the follow-up to a "prior scuffle". more >>

Flight With a Beauty Queen Inspires Business Plan for BU Grad

College students are among the customers of a new online dating service called AirTroductions, which matches up customers with compatible seating partners during air travel. The business's founder, a Boston University College of Communications graduate, tells the Daily Free Press he got the idea after sitting next to Miss Texas in 2002. more >>

Are You at Least 25-percent Caucasian? B.U. College Republicans Have $250 for You

Copying a move that won a student group at Roger Williams University national media attention two years ago, the College Republicans at Boston University have made a call for applications to their "Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship." The winning student, who must be at least 25 percent Caucasian, will get $250. more >>

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